From delaying Arctic expeditions to cancelling vital global climate conferences, the coronavirus pandemic has hindered climate change progress and threatens effective natural disaster forecasting as hurricane season approaches.
From delaying Arctic expeditions to cancelling vital climate conferences, the coronavirus pandemic has hindered global climate change progress and threatens effective disaster forecasting as hurricane season approaches.
In this Friday, April 24, 2020 photo provide by the Alfred Wegener Insitute shows the German Arctic research vessel Polarstern in the ice next to a research camp in the Arctic region.is hindering global climate change progress and raising fears over a long-term hit to scientific research budgets. In the Arctic, a year-long expedition to study how global warming is impacting the region was interrupted by the pandemic.
NASA investigations are also taking a hit. A NASA project studying of loss of land in the Mississippi River delta and hurricane recovery in Puerto Rico have both been suspended. And aNearly every single research project underway this year from the, which conducts hundreds of climate projects from topics like methane pollution to severe weather patterns, is delayed until next year.
In this Wednesday April 22, 2020 photo provide by the Alfred-Wegener-Institut seven MOSAIC expedition participants were flown out with a Twin Otter plane from an arctic camp.Widespread flight cancellations due to the pandemic could also hurt weather forecasting since forecasting models rely on temperature and wind data gathered by thousands of airplanes flying overhead.
The focus of this year's talks was how countries can strengthen targets for greenhouse-gas reductions, which is key to hindering the effects of climate change, including hurricanes, drought and deadly heatwaves.
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